The Portland daily press., 1887-02-05
XLlXth CONGRESS- SECOND SESSION
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, FeD. a.
Mr. Boar reported the resolution for in
vestigation of Pacific railroads and asked for
immediate consideration.
Mr. Hale objected to the immediate con-
sideration of the bill, and it therefore went
to the calendar, Mr.. Hoar giving .notice that
he would call it up at the first opportunity.
The bill provides for the protection OF the
interests OF the government by authorizing
the President to redeem any of the first mort
gage lien, and provides that for the future
shall be paid to the government 40 instead OF
20per cent.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration
of the Senate bill to credit and pay to the
several States and Territories, and District
of Columbia all moneys collected under dl-
rect tax levied by the act OF August 8, 1861
Mr. Sherman advocated and explained the
bill. He said it had been several times rec
omm9nded by the Treasury Department,
partly as an act of justice, and partly to re-
lieve the department of legal complications
1t referred to the tax of S20,000,000 imposed
during the war upon all the States north and
south. To those Northern States which paid
it promptly discount of 10 per cent had been
allowed, but some few of those States did
not pay promptly, and since the war some of
it had been collected from some of the South
ern States
After some discussion the bill was passed I;
yeas, SO, nays, 1. (Mr Van Wyck.)
The bin directs the Secretary of the Treas
ury to credit to each State and Territory and
to the District of Columbia sum equal to
all collections made from them under the di-
rect tax act. 1t RENTS and relinQuishes all
of the tax still due, and it appropriates suf-
fcent amount to reimburse the States for all
moneys found due to them under the provis-
ions of this act to be paid to their respective
governors, provided thatswhere taxes have
been collected from citizens, either directly,
or by the sale of property the amount shall
be held in trust for them or their legal repre-
sentatives by the United States.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
railroad attorney bill, and was addressed by
Mr.. Wilson of Iowa, in favor of the bill.
The Senate then proceeded to vote on the
bill. The first vote was taken on the amend
ment urged by Mr.. Hoar, making it unlaw-
full for member of Congress to accept en-
ployment as attorney in opposition to the
United States in any case to which the
United States may be party, or in which its
interests may be concerned, or from any sub
sidized railroad company. Agreed to-26 to
q.
The next vote was on the amendment Of
fered by Mr.. Call to the committees substi-
tute striking out all OF it not strictly apply
ing to members of Congress, acting as attor-
neys. The amendment was rejected-yeas
25; nays, 26. The next question was on the
amendment offered by Salisbury as substi-
tute reported by the judiciary committee
The debate on this amendment led to con-
siderable asperity between Messrs. Beck and
Salisbury.
Mr.. Beck criticised the amendment Sc.
verely, and said the object Of his bill was to
say that those members of Congress who
were, on any pretext whatever, in the em.
| ploylnent of railroad company, who had
| probably received fees ten times out of pro
| portion to their services, in order to have
| their friendship, should not occupy such re
| lations. With great show of fairness, the
| in the Senate), had been induced to believe
| that it was hardship on lawyers in Con
| gress to prevent them from taking fees from
| such corporations, except in cases where
they were in controversy with the govern
ment itself. Every enemy of this bill, ever,
man who sought to defeat it by direct );
indirect means, was amending it ant
adding to it, and supplementing it
He sent to the clerks desk and had read ex
tracts from the Record showing that last. .ses
| sion Mr., Salisbury had voted yea ON th
passage of the bill, and had voted nay on tn
motion to refer it to the judiciary committee
He had desired before the final death of tn
bill because Mr.. Hoar's amendment had de
stroyed it, and Mr.. Saulsbury's amendmen
was only intended to lay 1t a little bit NOR
decently in the grave, to make this statement
He was willing to stand by the record mad
by the gentlemen last session, who then un
derstood fairly the purport of the bill, bu
who were now willing to license every maj
in both Houses to be attorneys for thes
great railroad corporations. No intelligen
man in the country would sbelieve that tn
am endmSnt of the Senator from Delawar
would do any good, and some people wou
be malicious enough to think that it was no
intended that it should. He regarded it a
absolutely worthless. 1t was a mild brea
pill.
Mr. Salisbury said he could not let the rt
marks of the Senator from Kentucky pas
unnoticed. He was willing to concede {
that Senator monopoly of all the talent an
all the virtue of the Senate. That Senate
certainly assumed it for himself and he (Ml
Salisbury would not controvert his position
But he thought it little ungenerous in tina
Senator to denounce other gentlemen VIII
saw proper to differ from him. The tender
cy OF that Senator's remarks had been
show that because Senators had voted for hi
bill under the impulse of the moment, an
had afterwards changed their views, tina
change of view had not been honest.
Mr.. Beck-l have neither claimed specit
virtue nor suggested any badly who change,
his vote had done so dishonesty. | deny il
Mr.. Saulsbury-Yo said the Senator fror
Delaware had voted for your bill and ha
been induced" to change his opinion.
would like to know what is the meaning q
the term induced as applied by the Ser
ator from Kentucky. If that Senator a
tempts to cast any imputation on the actio
Of myself or another Senator
Mr.. Beck dnterrupting(-Th Senator frol
Delaware knows that / said there was n
man whose integrity was higher than his.